Satellites Tonight

Can I see Starlink tonight in Carlisle?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east.

Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

Updated Times in local time (BST)54.90°, -2.94°
Tonight's best pass
Appears
4:58 am
east, 38°
Highest
5:25 am
85° north-northeast
Fades
5:28 am
northeast, 10°
NESW
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites, same launchLaunch 2026-219 · 20 September 2026

The next 8 nights at a glance

11 visible passes
dark skytraineasy (mag ≤ 3.5)moderate (≤ 4)faint (≤ 5)

Pass times, night by night

start · path · brightness

Tonight · Wednesday 7 Oct

dark 7:09 pm – 6:51 am
4:58 amto 5:28 am · 31 min
E → NE, highest 85° NNEappears east at 38°, almost overhead at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy11 satellites
5:33 amto 5:50 am · 17 min
WNW → NNE, highest 70° WNWappears west-northwest at 70°, high at the top
≈ mag 3.5 · easy6 satellites
5:55 amto 6:16 am · 21 min
W → NNE, highest 41° NWappears west at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate7 satellites
6:18 amto 6:28 am · 10 min
W → NNE, highest 26° NWappears west at 18°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint3 satellites

Thursday 8 Oct

dark 7:07 pm – 6:53 am
4:54 amto 5:13 am · 19 min
ENE → NE, highest 45° NEappears east-northeast at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:17 amto 5:25 am · 9 min
NNE → NNE, highest 54° Nappears north-northeast at 48°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate3 satellites
5:28 amto 5:59 am · 32 min
NNW → NNE, highest 52° NNWappears north-northwest at 52°, high at the top
≈ mag 4 · moderate11 satellites
6:02 amto 6:20 am · 18 min
WNW → NNE, highest 26° NWappears west-northwest at 25°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint6 satellites

Friday 9 Oct

dark 7:04 pm – 6:54 am
5:02 amto 5:17 am · 15 min
NNE → NNE, highest 37° Nappears north-northeast at 35°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint6 satellites
5:28 amto 5:43 am · 16 min
NNW → NNE, highest 35° NNWappears north-northwest at 34°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 4.5 · faint7 satellites
5:47 amto 5:55 am · 9 min
NNW → NNE, highest 27° NNWappears north-northwest at 27°, halfway up at the top
≈ mag 5 · faint3 satellites

Saturday 10 Oct – Wednesday 14 Oct

no visible passes

Magnitude is an estimate (lower = brighter; 3 is easy, 5 needs a dark sky). Predictions for satellites that are still raising their orbits can shift by a few minutes from one update to the next; check again before you go out. How we compute this.

Seeing Starlink from Carlisle

Carlisle is at 54.9°N. Tonight the sky is dark enough from 7:09 pm until 6:51 am. A Starlink satellite only shows when it is still in sunlight while you are in darkness, so the passes bunch up in the first hours after dusk and the last hours before dawn, not around midnight. Over the next 8 nights we found 11 visible passes (0 in the evening, 11 before dawn); 5 of them should be easy to spot (estimated magnitude 4 or brighter).

The best one is on Thursday 8 Oct at 4:58 am: it appears in the east, climbs to 85° in the north-northeast and fades in the northeast at about magnitude 3.5.

The passes come from these launches:

Satellites from launch 2026-225 (28 September 2026) are also low and bright, but they do not pass over Carlisle while it is dark and they are sunlit in this period.

No train is visible this week. A train is only a train for about the first 10 days after a launch; here is why some weeks have nothing.

Questions

Can I see Starlink tonight in Carlisle?

Yes — best chance 4:58 am, looking east. Visible from 4:58 am to 5:28 am, almost overhead in the sky (85°) at its highest; easy to see away from bright lights.

When is the next Starlink train over Carlisle?

There is no train pass over Carlisle in the next 8 nights. Trains are only visible for about 10 days after a launch; the latest launch in our data is 2026-225 on 28 September 2026.

Which direction should I look for Starlink from Carlisle?

This week most passes appear in the north-northwest or west-northwest. Each pass above lists where it appears, how high it climbs and where it fades.

Nearby cities

All of England →
Newcastle upon Tyne 85 kmGateshead 86 kmWashington 91 kmSouth Shields 97 kmDarlington 98 kmSunderland 99 km

Before you go out

How to spot StarlinkWhat the Starlink train isWhy some nights have nothing